Word: chillness
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...combed the area before the Queen and Prince Philip stepped ashore. In a bleakly unceremonial freight shed, she inspected the honor guard, listened to a welcoming speech by Premier Jean Lesage, then climbed into a bulletproof Cadillac for the drive to the Quebec Parliament Building-and a reception as chill as the north wind moaning down from the Arctic...
...cancan line of the Moulin Rouge. Some of the old squabbles were revived: the Communists and Socialists boycotted many of the ceremonies. But once again De Gaulle rose above all that. In his Hotel de Ville speech, he sounded the suitable notes of glory, but he also dared to chill his listeners with a reference to how and why France had fallen in the first place...
Friday, August 14 BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Each week Millionaire-Detective Gene Barry rounds up a collection of murder victims and suspects played by veteran actors, contemporary celebrities and/or glamor girls of recent vintage. This week the line-up includes Chill Wills, Ed Wynn and Broderick Crawford. Repeat...
...more serious moments, Khrushchev threw his hosts into a wintry Norwegian chill. On Cuba, he gave the impression that he would approve if Castro shot down an overflying U.S. reconnaissance plane, and would come to his aid if the U.S. retaliated. He denounced recent NATO maneuvers near the Russian-Norway border, and, as he had the Danes, advised Norwegians to get out of the Atlantic Pact altogether. The Norwegians neither needed nor wanted the advice-and their response was just the reverse of what Khrushchev was suggesting. The Russian, said an outraged Norwegian government official, succeeded only in "solidifying...
Since Nikita Khrushchev put a chill on the "thaw" in Russian letters last year, Soviet artists and writers have slowly, gradually been working back toward the level of relatively free ex pression that reached its high point with Poet Evgeny Evtushenko's mass readings in Mayakovsky Square. Recently, however, intellectuals have once again felt the cold wind of literary conservatism. This time it blew not on a politically outspoken, widely published writer, but rather on one of Russia's many literary "abstainers" - ostensible amateurs whose works are circulated by hand, thus precluding their being drafted into the government...